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A major concern when building Recommender Systems (RSs) for recruitment domains is ensuring actual matching opportunities for all candidates and job vacancies on the system as fast as possible. Indeed, long periods waiting for matchings imply losses of business opportunities, causing financial damages for both candidates and companies. We refer to these scenarios where candidates or job vacancies suffer from the absence of matching opportunities as the Matching Scarcity Problem (MaSP). First, we formalize the MaSP itself. Second, we proposed and evaluated strategies to identify automatically candidates and job vacancies suffering from MaSP. Finally, we proposed five heuristic strategies to mitigate MaSP. Our strategies consist of introducing changes in curricula and job descriptions to approximate candidates suffering from MaSP to jobs semantically related to them, and vice versa. The best strategy was able to reduce up to 50% the number of both CVs and jobs suffering from MaSP before applying it in our sample.

WebMedia 2020

Mitigating Matching Scarcity in Recruitment Recommendation Domains

matching scarcity

job recommendation

user modeling

### Welcome to the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia Systems and Web 
Promoted annually by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia Systems and Web (WebMedia) is the main event on the subject in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchanges between students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web. This year, we will be celebrating the 27th edition of WebMedia, to be held from **November 5th to 12th, 2021**, organized by the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Federal University of São João Del Rei. For the second time in its history, the event will be held online, with interaction between the participants being done through tools and web platforms.
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The Webmedia 2021 schedule will feature:
 
* Technical sessions for the presentation of scientific articles.
* National and international lectures
* Panel with Companies
* Workshops
* Short courses
* Project meetings open to the community
 

The topics of interest for paper submission are:
 
* Web and Social Networks
* Multimedia
* Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
 

In addition to the main track, WebMedia 2021 will feature the Tools and Applications Workshop, the Scientific Initiation Papers Contest, the Theses and Dissertations Contest, the RNP CT-Video Workshop.
 
The organization of WebMedia 2021 is under the responsibility of the [Department of Computer Science at UFMG (DCC/UFMG)](http://dcc.ufmg.br/) and [Department of Computer Science at UFSJ (DCOMP/UFSJ)](https://dcomp.ufsj.edu.br/)
 
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WebMedia 2021

The Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia Systems and Web (WebMedia) is the main event on the subject in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchanges between students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web.

technical paper

Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is the main event of the theme in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchange among students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web. This year we will be celebrating to 26th edition of WebMedia, which will be held online from november 30th to December 4th .

Webmedia 2020’s programming includes:

– Technical sessions for the presentation of scientific papers
– National and international keynotes
– Panel with companies
– Workshops
– Short Courses
– Open community meetings

The topics of interest for submitting papers are:

– Web and Social Networks
– Multimedia
– Digital TV, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

Besides the main track, WebMedia 2020 will have in parallel the Tools and Applications Workshop, works Tools and Applications Workshop, the Workshop on Undergraduate Research Work and the Workshop The Future of Interactive.

The WebMedia 2020 organization is under the responsibility of the Programa de Pós-graduação Doutorado em Ciência da Computação – Associação UFMA/UFPI (DCCMAPI), do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação/ CCET (PPGCC), do Laboratory of Advanced Web Systems/UFMA (LAWS) e do Laboratório de Sistemas Multimídia/UFMA (TELEMÍDIA).).

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Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is the main event of the theme in Brazil and an excellent opportunity for scientific and technical exchange among students, researchers and professionals in the areas of Multimedia, Hypermedia and Web.

About 50 million people around the world have Alzheimer's disease. The main characteristic of the disease is the deterioration of cognitive function, and as a result of the fact that the disease has no cure or treatment. This article presents a systematic mapping of the literature to identify articles that use technological devices to assist patients with Alzheimer's disease, in order to show an overview of the literature, identifying gaps and research opportunities. The systematic mapping study was conducted out in six databases, including articles from January 2015 to July 2020. An initial search resulted in 12,177 articles, of which 28 were selected after applying the filter criteria. The main results obtained are: (1) most articles (25.71%, 7/28) reported solutions used in devices with sensor development; (2) most technologies (22.06%, 6/28) were focused on monitoring; (3) most papers (82.14%, 23/28) address solutions for dementia, citing Alzheimer's disease indirectly; (4) more than half of the studies aimed at monitoring patients (54%, 15/28); (5) most studies (82.14%, 23/28) performed an experiment with patients with the disease. The results corroborate the need for technological devices to help caregivers monitor patients, in addition to evidence of research opportunities in palliative care and support for daily activities.

Technologies applied in the care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review

The popularization of Location-based social networks (LBSNs) in last years has provided a lot of improvements in several Recommender Systems to the task of points-of-interest (PoI) recommendation. In this paper, we provide an updated view of the PoI recommendation, identifying relevant efforts, results, contributions, and limitations. Through a systematic mapping, we selected 73 relevant papers published in the last three years (2017, 2018, and 2019) in the main vehicles of the area (e.g., RecSys, VLDB, SIGIR, WWW, TKDE, etc). As major limitations, first, we identified that these works prioritize accuracy over other quality dimensions, despite the consensus in the RS community that accuracy is not enough to assess the practical effectiveness of RSs. Further, we found a low intersection of metrics and datasets used in these works, along with a large number of metrics used in a few distinct studies. These observations show restrictions for reproducibility and straightforward comparison of results in the area. Finally, we highlight as a promising future work the in-depth exploitation of textual data, since just a few of the evaluated papers marginally use this rich data source.

A Survey on Point-of-Interest Recommendation in Location-based Social Networks

The current advances have recognized the online recommendation task as a Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem and proposed several algorithms by combining it with Collaborative Filtering (CF). In general, their effectiveness is related to their practical ability to handle the trade-off between selecting the most relevant item (exploitation) or choose an unexpected item to add more knowledge to the system (exploration). However, we observed that a naive failure has been introduced in the main CF bandit models, which have intrinsically reduced itself to pure exploitation of the information known a prior by the system (e.g., items’ popularity) or a pure exploration of the items in the first user’s interaction. Conversely, we hypothesize this trade-off should be considered since the first user’s interactions to improve the system’s effectiveness. Thus, we propose a new methodology to measure the impact of this problem. This methodology has two main phases. In phase 1, traditional non-personalized methods resemble pure-exploitation and pure-exploration to feed the learning of all MAB models. Then, analyzing the MAB effectiveness in phase 2, we may determine the best approach to be considered in the first user’s interactions. Moreover, we also propose and add a new strategy that combines exploration and exploitation in phase 1. Indeed, our experimental results show that the combination of exp-exp at first user’s interactions improves the system’s effectiveness without adding more effort to users.

The impact of first recommendations based on exploration or exploitation approaches in recommender systems’ learning

Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) have become important tools for people interested in exploring new places. And, similar to traditional recommendation domains, handling the trade-off between accuracy and diversity is a major challenge to provide useful recommendations. However, this domain adds an equally relevant dimension to this challenge: the geographical distance between users and each point-of-interest (POI). Besides understanding how the characteristics of services offered by each POI fit the user needs, realizing how far users are willing to move to fulfill these needs is of paramount relevance. Moreover, the users present distinct levels of interest in diversification. In this paper, we propose a strategy to provide POI recommendations linearly combining categorical and geographical diversifications in a personalized way. Indeed, our strategy is able to prioritize quality dimensions that better suit the personalized needs of each user, with gains up to 10% when compared with unpersonalized versions.

Combining complementary diversification models for personalized POI recommendations

More than just a common habit or pastime of people, listening to music is often used as a way to facilitate listeners to achieve a certain mental state or to perform specific activities. Among the most common activities performed when listening to music is relaxation. According to findings from the area of music therapy, a good musical choice for relaxation needs personalization. However, until now, many studies in the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) have focused on only identifying general characteristics of music according to certain contexts. Thus, this paper focuses on expanding the findings of music therapy, considering aspects of musicology and a large amount of data. To this end, we: (i) explore more than 60 thousand handcrafted playlists of almost 5 thousand users; (ii) create a user preference model based on high and low-level features of the songs and (iii) analyze the differences between the users' preferences. The results of our analysis suggest that personalization plays a key role in the playlists created by the users. With this work, we want to pave the way and encourage the improvement of context-aware music recommender systems or other MIR concepts like user behavior analysis.

Investigating the Role of Personalization When Creating Relaxing Playlists

Currently, videos play an important role in people's every day lives and there is a continuous increase in their production and consumption. However, to make video information access a feasible task, smarter and more efficient strategies are needed in order to deal with this complex and huge data volume. In this context, automatic video summarization becomes a significant tool. This research area aims to produce a smaller version of original video, keeping its most meaningful information. Particularly for some relavant domains, like news and education, it is important a summary to be generated from a set of related videos - different videos about the same subject. In the automatic multi-video summarization field a common and essential step is to define content selection criteria. A promising approach, yet unexploited by related work, is to apply inclusion and exclusion criteria derived from human strategies. In this work, we investigate how exclusion criteria can help to keep multi-video summaries short and informative. We introduce an approach to detect subjectivity into video segments from news domain, allowing those segments to be not included into the summary. Our approach is evaluated by the means of objective measures of effectiveness. We also analyze the impact that removing such subjective segments has on multi-video summarization outputs by conducting a study with final users. Results indicate that the proposed approach is able of producing more compact summaries, keeping the relevant content for the users.

Investigating Subjectivity Criterion for Multi-video Summarization

The recent availability of HMD devices (Head-Mounted Display) spurred advances in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. It allowed scenarios of immersion of users in realistic environments, e.g., synthesized 3D environments for games and simulation, and omnidirectional videos, namely 360° videos. These HMD devices are commonly used in conjunction with home computers or in controlled environments (e.g., museums). However, despite these scenarios, current interactive TV systems still focus on using interactive content in two-dimensional layouts. These systems could use HMDs to provide immersive experiences to viewers. This paper, therefore, presents Guaraná, a player for interactive 360° scenes using HMDs as second screen devices. Guaraná controls a 360 scene execution based on external control from a TV set. Thus, it enables its use in conjunction with an intereactive multimedia application.

Interactive 360-degree Videos in Ginga-NCL UsingHead-Mounted-Displays as Second Screen Devices

Smart city services are typically defined according to domains (e.g., health, education, safety) and supported by different systems. Consequently, the analysis of smart city data is often domain-specific, thus limiting the capabilities of the offered services and hampering decision-making that relies on isolated domain information. To support a suitable analysis across multiple domains, it is necessary having a unified data model able to handle the inherent heterogeneity of smart city data and take into account both geographic and citizen information. This presentation is related to an ontology-based information model to support multi-domain analysis in smart cities to foster interoperability and powerful automated reasoning upon unambiguous information. The semantic relationships and properties defined in the model also allow inferring new pieces of information that improve accuracy when analyzing multiple city domains. An evaluation of the information model through ontological metrics and competence questions also will be presented.

An Ontology-based Information Model for Multi-Domain Semantic Modeling and Analysis of Smart City Data

On social media platforms, comments associated with news pieces are usually filled with negativity and toxicity, many times promoting flamed discussions and insults among users. Although designed to encourage conversations and interactions, the high toxicity might end up contributing to create a hostile environment in the online space, which is detrimental to both social media platforms and their users. In this work, we provide a diagnostic about the toxicity in comments associated with news shared on Facebook. To do that, we collected all posts and comments from relevant pages during a major political event in Brazil, the release of Former President Lula from prison. We then used the Perspective API from Google to measure the toxicity of the comments and posts. Our analysis of the toxicity unveils features that influence toxicity associated with the news, especially in relation to public figures. We hope our findings may affect the design of better content policies able to mitigate the problem.

Characterizing Toxicity on Facebook Comments in Brazil

In view of the emergence of mobility restrictions and social isolation imposed by the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, digital media, especially social networks, become a breeding ground for fake news, political attacks and large-scale misinformation. The impacts of this `infodemic' can take even greater proportions when using sponsored content on social networks, such as Facebook ads. Using the Facebook ad library we collected more than 236k facebook ads from 75 different countries. Choosing ads from Brazil as the focus of research, we found ads with political attacks, requests for donations, doctors prescribing vitamin D as a weapon to fight coronavirus, among other contents with evidence of misinformation.

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